A Fully Integrated Battery-Connected Switched-Capacitor 4:1 Voltage Regulator with 70% Peak Efficiency Using Bottom-Plate Charge Recycling

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Tong, Tao [1 ]
Zhang, Xuan [1 ]
Kim, Wonyoung [1 ]
Brooks, David [1 ]
Wei, Gu-Yeon [1 ]
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[1] Harvard Univ, Sch Engn & Appl Sci, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
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This work presents a switched-capacitor (SC) DC-DC voltage regulator that converts a 3.7V battery voltage down to similar to 0.8V in order to power the 'brain' SoC of a flapping-wing microrobotic bee. A cascade of two 2:1 SC converters offers high efficiency for a 4:1 conversion ratio. A charge recycling technique reduces the flying capacitor's bottom-plate parasitic loss by 50% and overall conversion efficiency reaches 70%. The output droop is less than 10% of the nominal output voltage for a worst-case 47mA load step.
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